St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2025-06-18
Bulletin Contents
St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin
Service Calendar
Message from Father John
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
About Us

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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (509) 547-3968
  • Fax:
  • none / Facebook Group: "Saint Nectarios - Pasco"
  • Street Address:

  • 627 West Bonneville Street

  • Pasco, WA 99301
  • Mailing Address:

  • 627 West Bonneville Street

  • Pasco, WA 99301

Contact Information

Mrs Tamara G Droppo
Board President

[email protected] | 5093668745

Services Schedule

    Online DIVINE LITURGY - 10:00am

or

    In-church TYPICA Reader Service - 10:00am

Past Bulletins


St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin

(Updated 6/11/2025)

06/15/2025

The St Nectarios Bulletin lists all Services.  Saturday Online Vespers and Sunday Online Divine Liturgy Service are streamed to the Facebook Group: Saint Nectarios-Pasco. (You do not need to join the group to watch posted Services.  Just ignore any request to sign-in.)

This week there will be online Vespers and Divine Liturgy Services.
An in church Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at the St. Nectarios church on Saturday June 21st at 9am with Fr. Michael Tervo. A pot-luck Fellowship time will follow. The Service will also be streamed to Facebook.
Services are streamed to the Facebook Group: Saint Nectarios-Pasco. (You do not need to join the group to watch posted Services. Just ignore any request to sign-in)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/334558973222227
For information, questions, and appointments - call Jim/Tammy Droppo 5O9 366-8745 or send email to [email protected]. All are welcome at St. Nectarios!

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Service Calendar

  • Saint Nectarios

    June 21 to July 13, 2025

    Saturday, June 21

    9:00AM in church Divine Liturgy with Father Tervo

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, June 22

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Saturday, June 28

    9:30AM Coptic Holy Service

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, June 29

    10:00AM Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship

    Friday, July 4

    7:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Saturday, July 5

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, July 6

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Saturday, July 12

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, July 13

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

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Message from Father John

ALL THE SAINTS OF GOD
Our Church established “All Saints’ Sunday” to commemorate all the known and unknown Saints who have honored God with their lives. They are the first fruits of the Day of Pentecost, of the Descent of the Holy Spirit. When the Saints received the Holy Spirit into their lives, He changed and renewed them. He filled them with inspiration, faith, and an inner desire to do God’s Holy Will. The Saints in Jerusalem devoted themselves to prayer, to the preaching of God’s “Good News” of salvation and to helping other people in need. As followers of Christ, they became a large Christian family and active members of His Body, the Church.
In its daily Holy Services, our Church commemorates one or more Saints who honored and served the Lord with their lives. Some of the Saints even suffered martyrdom for their Faith in Christ. We do not know all their names, but all of them are important to the Lord and us. All Saints’ Sunday embraces and commemorates all of them, known and unknown.
The Saints of God faced temptations and threats from the people around them but they did not succumb to the world. They had fixed their eyes on God, and they judged and evaluated everything in life according to God’s Holy Will. When they recited in the Lord’s Prayer, “Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” they meant it. They did not allow either the “sirens” of old or the modern temptations to distract them from their goal and commitment to Christ. St. Paul's words, “I am crucified with Christ; I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me,” guided them. The Saints were not alone in their spiritual struggle. God was with them. They experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit, as St. Stephen’s martyrdom in the Acts of the Apostles has shown us.
St Paul called the Christians “saints” in his Letters to the different Churches. All of us are called to become saints. The word saint, aghios in Greek, means that we have the capability to rise above our earthly, material existence, to be transformed and become heavenly, Godlike. The heavenly element exists in us, the first fruits of the Holy Spirit live in us. We are temples of the Holy Spirit. The Saints proved this with their sanctified lives. We are called to emulate their example and strive to become Godlike as they did. This is the reason that the Church presents them to us as examples on All Saints’ Sunday!
With love,
Fr. John P. Angels
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Saints and Feasts

June 18

2nd Wednesday after Pentecost

June 18

Leontius, Hypatius, & Theodulus the Martyrs of Syria

This Martyr was from Greece. Being of great bodily stature and strength, he was an illustrious soldier in the Roman legions who had won many victories, and was known for his prudence and sobriety of mind. When it was learned that he gave grain to the poor from the imperial stores, and was moreover a Christian, Hadrian the Governor of Phoenicia sent Hypatius, a tribune, and Theodulus, a soldier, to arrest him. Saint Leontius converted them on the way to Tripolis in Phoenicia, where Hypatius and Theodulus were tormented and beheaded by Hadrian for their confession of Christ. Then Hadrian with many flatteries and many torments strove to turn Leontius from Christ. All his attempts failing, he had Leontius put to such tortures that he died in the midst of them, under Vespasian in the year 73.

June 18

Leontios the Myrrh-Streamer of Argos

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Hymns of the Day

Apolytikion for Martyr Leontius & Companions in the Fourth Tone

Thy Martyr, O Lord, in his courageous contest for Thee received as the prize the crowns of incorruption and life from Thee, our immortal God. For since he possessed Thy strength, he cast down the tyrants and wholly destroyed the demons' strengthless presumption. O Christ God, by his prayers, save our souls, since Thou art merciful.

Apolytikion for the Church in the First Tone

The Offspring of Selyvria and Guardian of Aegina, the true friend of virtue who appeared in the last years. Oh Nectarios we faithful honor you as a godly servant of Christ! For you bring forth healings of every kind for those who piously cry out: Glory to Christ who has glorified you, Glory to him who made you wondrous, glory to him who workest healings for all through you.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Tone

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee.

The translations of hymns are under copyright and used by permission. All rights reserved. These works may not be further reproduced, in print or on other websites or in any other form, without the prior written authorization of the copyright holder:

  • Apolytikion for Martyr Leontius & Companions in the Fourth Tone © Holy Transfiguration Monastery
  • Seasonal Kontakion in the Second Tone © Holy Transfiguration Monastery
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    Gospel and Epistle Readings

    Epistle Reading

    Prokeimenon. Third Tone. Luke 1: 46-48.
    My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
    Verse: For he has regarded the humility of his servant.

    The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 4:13-25.

    Brethren, the promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression. That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants -- not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all, as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" -- in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations; as he had been told, "So shall your descendants be." He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was "reckoned to him as righteousness." But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

    Gospel Reading

    2nd Wednesday after Pentecost
    The Reading is from Matthew 7:21-23

    The Lord said, "Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers.'"

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    About Us

    ST. NECTARIOS GREEK ORTHODOX MISSION CHURCH
    Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco.
    This Tri-Cities Christian Orthodox Community has a church located at 627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301. All are invited to attend. A light lunch fellowship time normally follows the In-Church Liturgy and Typica Services.
    Prayers:  Please send us (or call us) with names of those you would like to be included in our prayers for healing.  Frist names may be entered in the St Nectarios - Pasco Group. 
    INFORMATION SOURCES
    For information on services and activities, you may:
    1) access our "Saint Nectarios - Pasco" Facebook Group:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/334558973222227/
    2) access the church website:
     (copy/paste this url) https://www.stnectariostricities.org/ for Welcome to Our Parish Website | St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission (stnectariostricities.org) 
    3)  The online  (copy/paste this url) ../../../../../stnectariospasco/ for Saint Nectarios Bulletin  is the best source of up to date) information on church Services and activities. ( http://bulletinbuilder.org/stnectariospasco/  )
    NOTIFICATIONS 
    To receive the weekly Services Reminder  by email, please send an email request.
    For those not connected to the internet,  please call Jim (on 5O9 366 8745) to request either
        a) by a phone call on the 'week of the in-church Service'
           or
        b) by a weekly smart-phone Service reminder text message.
    CHURCH SERVICES
    Greek Orthodox Divine Liturgy.  Each month, we try to have at least one Divine Liturgy  (with a visiting Priest).  That Service is normally on a Saturday (or a Special Service/Feast weekday) and is scheduled when a Priest is available.  In addition to communion during the Service, private meetings with the Priest are available by appointment (for personal matters, planning future events, and Confession).
    Special Invitation - Saint Nectarios Church welcomes all: During Divine Liturgy, which is mostly in English, the Lord's Prayer is said by parishioners in their native languages.  Currently the prayer is normally said in English, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, and Greek.  If you wish to participate (and perhaps add a language), just let us know.
    On most weeks, we remotely celebrate Saturday Vespers  and Sunday Online Divine Liturgy  with Father John in the Seattle area.  During the remote Divine Liturgy, Communion is served to Father's attending family and friends - but is unavailable to those participating online.
    Online Greek Orthodox Vespers and Other Special Services are normally celebrated online with Father John in Seattle.  The link for joining Zoom to actively participate in on-line Services is
    https://goarch.zoom.us/j/98009355049?pwd=UmttUUN2aG4raUc4WS9Zelo1REYxdz09
    On the last Sunday of each month, there normally is a Typica Reader Service  with a Parish Fellowship Time.  This in-Church Service is held as an opportunity to bring the local community together - and hopefully eventually returning St. Nectarios to having a full time Priest.
    All are welcome to join in the celebration these Christian Orthodox Services.

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    Coptic Church Services

    Tri-Cities Coptic Church Services
    Saint Mary and Saint Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church.    This Coptic Church is currently holding services at the St. Nectarios Church.  A Saturday or Sunday Holy Liturgy with a visiting Priest is normally held once per month either in the Tricities or in Spokane.  All are invited to attend. A fellowship time and Christian Study Class for older students normally follows the Services.  For more information, please contact Nader Samaan ([email protected]) or access the website: 
     (copy/paste this url) https://www.stmary-stabanoub-tricities.org/ for https://www.stmary-stabanoub-tricities.org/

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    Contact us
    Have Bulletin input? Have Suggestions/Questions?  Want Help or Information?
    Call Jim/Tammy Droppo, 5O9 366-8745.

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